Bertie County NcArchives News.....John Lewis Harrington September 8, 1927 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: deborah kilby keldebor@aol.com September 13, 2011, 2:46 pm Ledger-Advance, Windsor Newspaper September 8, 1927 This is an article in the Ledger-Advance, Windsor newspaper, dated Sept. 8, 1927 JOHN LEWIS HARRINGTON The close friends of my boyhood and early manhood are rapidly going to the beyond. Mr. Harrington left me last week. We had been close personal, political and citizen friends for fifty years. We disagreed on no fundamental of good citizenship, of good government, or of duty. Being at one on all the great fundamentals of life, our course of close friendship was never broken-was never even put to the test or strained. John Lewis Harrington was born in Beaufort County, May 10th, 1856. He was one year and four months my senior. His parents were James O. Harrington and his wife, who was Mary M. Rogerson. He married Miss Martha E. Vick of Northampton County. Eight of their ten children, five sons and three daughters, survive him. Mr. Harrington came of strong country stock. He was ambitious, but had little chance for schooling. He made his own way, in public and private life he had the confidence of the people. At his death he was a Justice of the Peace and Mayor of Lewiston. The people of Bertie County called him to membership in the boards of County Commissioners and of Education. He served there faithfully and well. Mr. Harrington had ingenuity and mechanical skill. He invented, patented, and put upon the market a highly efficient and useful peanut picker. A few years he lived in Winston-Salem, where he supervised the manufacture of that machine. He was the head of the Harrington Manufacturing Co. Mr. Harrington was a member of Lewiston Baptist Church and of Lewistson Masonic lodge. He was made a Mason in Davie Lodge in 1883. He based his life on the teachings of his church and the practices of Masonry. Funeral services at Lewiston and burial services at Aulander in the Minton family grave yard were largely attended. His brothern and pastor and his lodge conducted the ceremonies. He was the father of H. Grady Harrington, a useful lawyer and citizen of Lewiston. I pay this slight tribute to the life of my old friend. He knew I would do so .FRANCIS D. WINSTON File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/bertie/newspapers/johnlewi661gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb